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“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.“Keep, ancient lands, yourContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 22nd July”

“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.” Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961), born on this day

“”Each man is in his spectre’s powerUntil the arrival of that hourWhen his humanity awakeAnd cast his own spectre into the lake.” William Blake Long before Freud and Jung, William Blake coined the word spectre to signify the illusory self that, by its appetites and desires, overrules and dictates to the true self. The illusoryContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 20th July”

“An existential revolution should provide hope of a moral reconstitution of society, which means a radical renewal of the relationship of human beings to what I have called the human order, which no political order can replace. A new experience of being, a renewed rootedness in the universe, a newly grasped sense of higher responsibility,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 19th July”

“People come and go, Customs, fashions and preferences change. Yet the web of fundamental rights and justice which a nation proclaims must not be broken.” Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013), born on this day

“As you move forward along the path of reason, people will stand in your way. They will never be able to keep you from doing what’s sound, so don’t let them knock out your goodwill for them. Keep a steady watch on both fronts, not only for well-based judgments and actions, but also for gentlenessContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 17th July”

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862 – 1931), journalist, civil rights campaigner and suffragette, born on this day

“When you have warfare things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war. When your forefathers threw the tea into Boston harbour, a good many women had to go without their tea. It has always seemed to me an extraordinary thing that you did notContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 15th July”

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.” Woody Guthrie (1912 –Continue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 14th July”

“One person, on doing well by others, immediately accounts the expected favour in return. Another is not so quick, but still considers the person a debtor and knows the favour. A third kind of person acts as if not conscious of the deed, rather like a vine producing a cluster of grapes without making furtherContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 13th July”